Forecasts of the Coming Century

Manchester: The Labour Press, 1897. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Hinges cracked, some minor wear to board extremities, scattered light foxing, contemporary ownership signature to f.f.e.p. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. An anthology of writings on "the changes going on in the social and industrial situation ... the Land Question, the questions of Trade-Unionism, Co-operation, Parliamentary Action, Education, Art, Literature, and the Status of Women, together with the general positionsof Socialism and Anarchism, have all been dealt with in some degree" (preface). Contributors includ Alfred Russell Wallace, Tom Mann, H. Russell Smart, William Morris, H.S. Salt, Enid Stacy, Grant Allen, Margaret McMillan, Bernard Shaw, and Edward Carpenter. (Inventory #: 313895)